Gostujuće predavanje „Japanese family and society through film“, dr. sc. Alexander Paul Jacoby (19. 1. 2026. u 14.30)

Odsjek za azijske studije Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta Jurja Dobrile u Puli poziva sve zainteresirane na predavanje koje će održati gostujući predavač dr. sc. Alexander Paul Jacoby sa Sveučilišta Oxford Brookes (UK) pod nazivom Japanese family and society through film.

Predavanje će se održati u ponedjeljak, 19. siječnja 2026., u 14.30 sati u dvorani 246 (Aula Magna), na Filozofskom fakultetu u Puli, 2. kat (Negrijeva 6), a predavanju možete pristupiti i online, putem poveznice Zoom: https://unipu-hr.zoom.us/j/8687655752?omn=92389608326.

Sažetak predavanja (na engleskom):

Since the silent era, Japanese cinema has made the family, and the transformation that beset it in a fast-modernising country, one of its central subjects. This lecture explores the representation of the modern Japanese family in the cinema of the Heisei Era (1989-2019), and in the films of Kore-eda Hirokazu in particular. During an age of diminished confidence in established modes of life and family formation, as well as changing patterns of employment, Kore-eda's films exemplify a widespread trend in Heisei-era cinema in which social norms are productively interrogated and challenged. In Kore-eda's case, and in Shoplifters in particular, this interrogation takes the form of exploring potential alternative family formations, reflecting on the question of whether it might in fact be better if family were something that was chosen, rather than born into.

Biografija predavača:

Alexander Jacoby lectures on Japanese film at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors (2008, Stone Bridge Press) and a forthcoming monograph on Kore-eda Hirokazu (British Film Institute / Bloomsbury). His scholarly essays have been published in Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007, ed. Phillips and Stringer), The Japanese Cinema Book (2020, ed. Fujiki and Phillips) and The Companion to Japanese Cinema (2022, ed. Desser) and The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke: Films of Joy and Sorrow (2025, ed. Desser and Jackson). He has curated film programmes at the British Film Institute, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

*Predavanje je dio projekta 10th Anniversary of Japanese Studies: Lecture Series @Pula, organiziran uz pomoć financijske potpore Japanske fondacije.*

Povodom 10. obljetnice osnutka programa Japanologije na Sveučilištu Jurja Dobrile u Puli, projektom se planira obilježavanje ovog događaja kroz organizaciju ciklusa hibridnih (uživo i online) predavanja međunarodno priznatih znanstvenika iz Japana i Europe. Sva predavanja bit će snimana, arhivirana i dostupna javnosti putem internetske platforme, čime se osigurava široka dostupnost i dugoročna iskoristivost edukativnog sadržaja.

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